THE revelation by Zambia’s Interim Climate Change Secretariat that the country is bidding to host the next Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board Meeting to be held in December this year is timely as the nation...

By SYLVESTER MWALE – A TEAM of marines from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has joined the search for the remaining four bodies of the nine that perished when a boat capsized on Lake...

By JAMES KUNDA – THE Government has spent more than K37 million towards the payment of salary arrears for workers at the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA), Parliament has heard. Transport and Communications Deputy Minister Richwell...

By PASSY HAACHIZO – ZAMBIA still faces challenges in the enjoyment of sexual reproductive health because of policy and legal limitations, First Lady Edgar Lungu has said. Ms Lungu said there is need for more...

By DELPHINE ZULU – SUSPENDED Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Mutembo Nchito has told the Court that his Judicial Review case before the High Court is not seeking to curtail the Tribunal sitting. In an...

By HAPPY MULOLANI – Merian Kalala, is a 56-years-old small scale farmer in Solwezi district in North-Western Province and has an insatiable passion for fish farming which she embarked on a few years ago. Initially,...

TALKING shop has noticed a new mode of vending at the on-going Zambia International Trade Fair in Ndola. Mobile vending is where vendors have resorted to selling various merchandise on either ordinary wheelburrows or mechanised...

By JAck Mwewa and Chatula KANGALI – COMMERCE, Trade and Industry Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe has said growth in all sectors of the Zambian industry will lead to a broadened tax base. Ms Mwanakatwe was speaking...

By JAck Mwewa and Chatula KANGALI – THE Pensions and Insurance Authority (PIA) has continued to record growth in its membership and net assets. The current membership is at 106,755 as per 2014 figures from...

ABOUT US$300 million will be spent on constructing 15 companies that have so far been approved at the Lusaka South Mult-Facility Economic Zone (LSMFEZ). LSMFEZ managing director Fortune Kamusaki said local and international companies are...